EARNEST. 'At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest,' v. 288, n. 3.
EASIER. 'It is easier to write that book than to read it' (Goldsmith),
ii. 90;
'It is much easier to say what it is not,' iii. 38.
EAST. 'The man who has vigour may walk to the east just as well as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way,' v. 35.
ECONOMY. 'The blundering economy of a narrow understanding,' iii. 300.
Emptoris sit eligere, i. 155.
EMPTY-HEADED. 'She does not gain upon me, Sir; I think her emptyheaded,' iii. 48.
END. 'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in
imitation of Johnson), iii. 301;
'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82;
'What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,' ii. 407.
ENDLESS. 'Endless labour to be wrong,' iii. 158, n. 3.
ENGLAND. 'It is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 78.
ENGLISHMAN. 'An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has
nothing to say,' iv. 15;
'We value an Englishman highly in this country, and yet Englishmen
are not rare in it,' iii. 10.